The Prelude, and Other Poems
Wordsworth continued: "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", "She Was a Phantom of Delight", "Ode to Duty", and The Prelude entire.
Measured across the book
Across its 10,665 lines, 93% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 92% to 93%). Alliteration runs at 1.01 times what shuffling the words would give (0.28 observed against 0.28 expected). 15% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
"She Was a Phantom of Delight"iambic tetrameter · AABBCCDDEE · 30 lines"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"iambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 26 linesThe Affliction of Margaretiambic tetrameter · ABABCCC · 77 linesThe Forsakeniambic tetrameter · ABABCCC · 14 linesRepentanceanapaestic tetrameter · ABAB · 36 linesAddress to My Infant Daughter, Doraiambic pentameter · 78 linesThe Kitten and Falling Leavestrochaic tetrameter · AABB · 127 linesThe Small Celandineiambic pentameter · ABAB · 24 linesAt Applethwaite, Near Keswickiambic pentameter · AABB · 14 linesVaudracour and Juliaiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 310 linesFrench Revolution, as it Appeared to Enthusiasts at its Commencementiambic pentameter · 40 linesOde to Dutyiambic tetrameter · ABABCCDD · 92 linesTo a Sky-Larktrochaic pentameter · AABB · 33 linesFidelityiambic tetrameter · 67 linesIncident Characteristic of a Favourite Dogtrochaic tetrameter · 40 linesTribute to the Memory of the Same Dogiambic pentameter · 36 linesTo the Daisy (#4)iambic tetrameter · AABCCCB · 70 linesElegiac Stanzasiambic pentameter · ABAB · 60 linesWhy is he wandering on the sea?iambic tetrameter · AABB · 16 lines"When, to the Attractions of the Busy World"iambic pentameter · unrhymed · 110 linesThe Cottager to Her Infantiambic tetrameter · AABB · 10 linesThe Waggoner: Canto Firstiambic tetrameter · AABB · 277 linesCanto Secondiambic tetrameter · AABB · 166 linesCanto Thirdiambic tetrameter · AABB · 143 linesCanto Fourthiambic tetrameter · AABB · 269 linesCan any mortal clog come to her?iambic tetrameter · AABB · 45 linesTo William Wordsworthiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 100 linesBook First: Introduction.—Childhood and School-Timeiambic pentameter · 691 linesBook Second: SCHOOL-TIME—continuediambic pentameter · unrhymed · 496 linesBook Third: Residence at Cambridgeiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 640 linesBook Fourth: Summer Vacationiambic pentameter · 484 linesBook Fifth: Booksiambic pentameter · 653 linesBook Sixth: Cambridge and the Alpsiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 794 linesBook Seventh: Residence in Londoniambic pentameter · unrhymed · 781 linesBook Eight: Retrospect—Love of Nature Leading to Love of Maniambic pentameter · 718 linesBook Ninth: Residence in Franceiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 597 linesBook Tenth: Residence in France—'Continued'iambic pentameter · unrhymed · 625 linesBook Eleventh: FRANCE—concludediambic pentameter · unrhymed · 474 linesBook Twelfth: Imagination and Taste, How Impaired and Restorediambic pentameter · unrhymed · 336 linesBook Thirteenth: Imagination and Taste, How Impaired and Restored—Concludediambic pentameter · unrhymed · 378 linesBook Fourteenth: Conclusioniambic pentameter · unrhymed · 462 linesFrom the Italian of Michael Angeloiambic pentameter · 14 linesFrom the Sameiambic pentameter · AABB · 14 linesFrom the Same. To the Supreme Beingiambic pentameter · AABB · 14 linesSonnet LXXXIXiambic pentameter · 22 linesAppendix, Note I: 'Poems on the Naming of Places'iambic pentameter · 18 linesLines: To William Wordsworthiambic pentameter · 144 lines
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